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INC3701 Assignment 4 2024 (867676) - DUE 24 July 2024
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- INC3701 (INC3701)
- Institution
- University Of South Africa
INC3701 Assignment 4 2024 (867676) - DUE 24 July 2024 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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[Company name]INC3701 Assignment
4 2024 (867676) -
DUE 24 July 2024
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED ANSWERS
, INC3701 Assignment 4 2024 (867676) - DUE 24 July
2024
Question 1
Read scenario A and answer the questions that follow:
INC3701/103/2024 7 Scenario A.
Tommy is 10 years old. He attends a school 8 km from home. He lives
in a two-room house that he shares with his mother, his 85-year-old
sick grandfather and eight other children. His mother is blind and
cannot find a job. Because no one in the house earns an income
Tommy is often hungry. He and the other older children in the
household take turns to stay home from school and care for the
grandfather. His schoolwork suffers because he is not able to attend
school every day. He must also fetch water from a river that is 1km
from home every morning before school and is often late for school.
When he is at school, he often finds it difficult to concentrate because
he is usually hungry and he worries about his grandfather a lot. He is
also sad because his father left home to look for work and never
returned. When he gets home after a long day at school, he works in
the neighbours’ garden and then sells the vegetables to earn some
money to buy food for the family. The teacher does not know why
Tommy comes to school late and why he is absent so often. She
shouts at him for not doing his homework and for his poor
performance at school. Tommy gets nervous when the teacher shouts
at him, so he sits at the back of the class so that she won’t notice him.
But Tommy is partially sighted and can’t see the board from the back
of the class. No one knows about Tommy’s eyesight as his eyes have
never been tested. His academic performance gets worse and worse.
1.1 Discuss 5 challenges that Tommy encountered in accessing
quality education that prevent him from achieving his potential.
Provide specific reasons mentioned in the passage to support your
answer. [4x5=20] INC3701/103/2024 8
1.2 Explain the impact of Tommy's family situation on his academic
performance. How does his responsibility for household tasks and
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